Window construction



Sept. 25, 1934. R. T. AXE 1,974,637

WINDOW CONSTRUCTION (WIDTHWISE ADJUSTABLE GUIDE) Filed April 17, 1933 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEYS.

Sept. 25, 1934. R. r. AXE 1,974,637

WINDOW CONSTRUCTION (WIDTHWISE ADJUSTABLE GUIDE?) Filed April 1'7, 1953 4 Sheets-Sheet 5 225- INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS Sept. 25, 1934. R, T, AXE 1,974,637

WINDOW CONSTRUCTION (WIDTHWISE ADJUSTABLE GUIDE) Filed April 1'7, 1933 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 ATTORNEYS.

Patented Sept. 25, 1934 WINDOW CONSTRUCTION (WIDTHWISE ADJUSTABLE GUIDE) Roy '1. Axe, Syracuse, N. Y., assignor, by mesne assignments, to The Syracuse Trust Company, Syracuse, N. Y., a corporation of New York,

trustee Application April 17, 1933, Serial Nae-66,429

13 Claims.

This invention relates to window frame and sash constructions particularly applicable for vehicles as railway cars, busses and the like, and

has for its object very simple and economical means for adjusting the frame to variations in the widths of standard sashes, and to misalinements of the post, or the sash out of the vertical.

Another object is adjusting means, which are readily accessible without removing the sash.

Another object is an adjustable sash guide which includes a base flange overlying or opposed to theside of the post structure which faces the edge of the sash and an angular flange lapping the inner side of the post structure, that is, the side toward the interior of the car, and means coacting with or interposed between one of said flanges and the post structure for adjusting the guide member edgewise relatively to the sash.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a car structure embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a view looking to the right in Figure 1, the lower window sash being removed.

Figure 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view through a post structure, the contiguous portions of the sashes on opposite sides of the post being also shown.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on line 4 4, Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional view, partly in elevation, taken on line 55, Figure 1.

Figurefi is a detail view of one of the reinforcing blocks of the guide member. 7

Figure '7 is a transverse sectional view of a modified form of 'means for holding the guide member in its widthwise adjustment and taken on line 7-7, Figure 8.

Figure 8 is a fragmentary elevation, partly in section, of the guide member and contiguous portion of the post structure showing a different form of means or cam for effecting the widthwise adjustment of the guide member, relatively to thesash.

Figure 9 is a fragmentary elevation, partly in section, of parts seen in Figure 8, looking to the right.

, Figure 10 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view of a guide and sash construction embodying another slightly modified form of the invention.

(Cl, 189 -73) a Figure 11 is an elevation of parts seen in Figure 1 with the facing strip removed.

Figure 12 is a cross sectional view through a post structure showing another embodiment of the adjustable guide member, contiguous portions of the sash being also shown.

Figure 13 is a fragmentary elevation of parts seen in Figure 12 looking upward, the sash being removed.

Figure 14 is a fragmentary elevation loo-king to the left in'Figure 12.

Figure 15 is a view similar to Figure 12 of anotherembodiment of the adjustable guide means, contiguous portion of the sash being omitted.

Figure 16 is a fragmentary elevation' looking upwardlyinFigure l5.

Figure 17 is a cross sectional view through the post structure showing another slightly modified form of the invention.

Figure 18 is a fragmentary elevation of parts seen in Figure 17, looking to the left, the window sash being omitted.

Sashes for railway cars and motor busses are furnished by a sash manufacturer to fit the standard windowopenings of railway cars and busses, and the sash manufacturer also furnishes sash guides to be applied to the post structure, or window frame. The window openings vary within small limits, and also the sashes may"vary within small limits. Likewise, the

' posts may be slightly out of vertical alinement, and the object of this invention is a structure whereby the sash manufacturer also supplies the guide member, and the guide member is so constructed that it can be adjusted forwidthwise variations and for slight misalinements out of the vertical in the post structure.

This window and sash construction comprises generally a structure having a window opening, a sash guide member carried by said structure at one side of the window opening, a sash movable along the guide member and means for adjusting the guide member edgewise relatively to the sash and for holding or fixing the guide member comparatively rigidly in its adjusted position. For brevitys sake, the portions of the frame confining the window opening are re ferred to herein as a post or post structure, although-it will be understood that in many instances, the frame member carrying the sash guide may not be strictly what is generally known as a post or post structure. The purpose of adjusting the guide member edgewise and fixing it in its adjusted position is' to make the guide member conform to widthwise variations in the sashes or in the posts or both or in this alinements out of the vertical of the posts or edges of the sashes.

1 designates the window frame including the post structure 2. The post structure here shown includes a T-shaped body 3 having applied thereto on opposite sides of the leg of the T strips 4 bent to form one side and the bottom of a channel 5. post body 2 in any suitable manner as by screws 6.

In the illustrated embodiment of my invention, the post structure further includes a facing strip '7 which is removable and which forms one side of the channel 5. The post structure here shown is an intermediate one between two window sashes with a sash oneach side thereof and the facing strip is double.

8 designates a sash guide member located in each channel and adjustable toward and from the bottom of the channel and edgewise relatively to the sash 9. The guide member here illustrated is formed of sheet metal to have a body 10 U-shaped in cross section with the sides of the U coacting with the sides of the channel 5, and with the intermediate or bottom part of the U formed with an outwardly extending flange 11 for entering a groove in the edge of the sash 9. The groove in the edge of the sash is provided with a U shaped weather strip, or lining 12 therein coaeting with the flange 11. The arrangement of the guide flange 11 in the groove of the sash per se forms no part of this invention which relates primarily to the widthwise adjustable feature of the'guide member 8. The guide member 8 is provided with reinforcing blocks 14 therein at intervals.

The means for adjusting the guide member 8 edgewise of the sash comprises adjusting screws 15 carried by the guide member and thrusting against the bottom of the channel 5 and extending in a direction edgewise of the sash. The screws have slotted heads 16 accessible from the face of the body 10 towardthe edge of'the sash. By turning the screws in the proper direction, the guide member will be pushed outwardly, and by turning them in the other direction, the guide member can be pushed inwardly toward the bottom of the channel until the inner ends of the screws bottom on the channel. The inner ends of the screws are provided with seats or disks 17 in order to have a large seating surface on the bottom of the channel. These adjusting screws are made accessible by raising the sash to make a lower adjusting screw accessible, an upper adjusting screw being accessible when the sash is lowered.

The guide member 8 is held from shifting movement after being set, by the clamping action of the facing strip '7. The clamping action of the strip 7 on the guide member 8 applies a binding action on the adjusting screws 15 tending to hold them from turning, or in their adjusted position. These facing strips are secured to the post body 2 by means of screws 18 extending through the facing strips into threaded blocks 19 secured in any suitable manner to the end of the T. formation of the body 2. These blocks 19 are here shown as provided with bifurcated bases as 21 extending astride the edge of the leg of the T formation and secured thereto as by rivets or screws 22.

The reinforcing blocks l i'are also formed-with recesses 24located'on-opposite sides of the flange 11 for the purpose of receiving the bifurcated These strips are secured to the ends of the bolt of a sash holder. forms no part of this invention.

In Figures 7, 8, and 9, another embodiment of the widthwise adjustable guide member is shown. designates a wood post. 31 is a sheet metal window frame part, angular in cross section, attached to the post as by screws 32 and corresponding to the strip 4, Figures 3 and 4.

33 is the facing strip corresponding to the strip 7, Figures 1, 2, 3, and i. 34 is the guide member in the channel formed by the strips 31, 33. In this embodiment of the invention, the guide member 34 is adjusted by means of a rotary cam 35 carried by the strip 31 on the bottom of the channel formed by this strip and the facing strip 33. The cam 35 is discoidal in general form with apolygonal periphery shaped to receive a wrench, and is formed with a cam surface 36 which is provided on one side of the disk and coacts with a follower 37 on the guide member. The. cam 35 is secured to the strip 31 or the-portion or flange forming the bottom of This feature the channel by suitable means as a rivet 33.

There are a plurality, usually two cams, located towardv the lower and upper ends of the 'guide member. The guide member is formed up of sheet metal and is practically the same as that shown in Figure 3, except that the folded portion 39 corresponding to the part 11, Figure 3, has its side portions spaced apart to receive a plate to on which the follower 37 is provided. One of the walls of the face portion of the guide member 31 is provided with an opening or openings ll through which the cams'can be adjusted by means of a wrench. f

The facing strip 33 is removable for the purpose of adjusting the earns 35 through the openings 41. The facing strip 33 is held in position by means of screws 42 extending through openings 43 in the facing strio and threading into nuts 44 located in recesses or boxes 45 provided on the bottom portion of the strip 31. These nuts are threaded at one end only and have a counterbore 46 opening through their other or inner ends. After the screws are initially locat-ed in the nut their inner ends are spread or split, as at 47, so that the screw cannot be entirely removed from the nuts and lost. The openings i3 are slots opening through the edge of the facing strip toward the post body. A lock Washer 48 is located between the outer end of the nut and one end wall of the box or recess 45. The nut is long enough to bottom on the other end wall of the box at 49 when the screw 42 is loosenedsufiiciently to permit the removal 1 of the strip 33. This feature holds the screw in alinement, or from assuming an inclined position when loosened, so that the strip 33 can be readily replaced. When the adjustment of the cams has been effected, the strip 33 is replaced by an edgewise-movement passing the slots 43 over the shanks of the screws 42 under the heads of the screws and the screws tightened thus clamping the face plate 33 against the guide vmember 31.

led as a unit with the sheet metal strips which are applied to the post structure.

50 designates the edgewise adjustable guide member, this being formedup of sheet metal to have a base portion 51 consisting of front and rear flanges 52, 53 and a guide member or lip Flor) l'abl'efacingstrip 61 formopposingsides of a channel in-which the base" of 'theadjustable guidemernber is mounted. The adjustable guide member is"secu'redto the strip 56- or the flange 58 "thereof by means of the screw and nut 62, 63, the screw extending through a slot 64 in the Ilahge i58 which pe'rrhitsthef guide-member 51 tobe shifted toward thepost farenoughso that the guide member can' entirely clear-the sash 'sdandpermit the sash "to be removed without removing th'ejguide member. "In order 'to prevent complete removal of the screws, the ends of its the screwsare expandedor riveted overin any 'well {known manner "so that the screws cannot entirely threadout of theiinutsf There is a pluralityof these screws62 andit'is obvious that the guidemember 51 after being properly positioned,

"canj be permanentlyheld in thisposition by tightening-thescrew 62 and the'screws may take any one of a plurality of'positions along the slot 64. The flange 53 of the guide member is "provided with suitable work--holes 67 at intervals for permitting access to the headsofthe screws 62', 1

- fterthe guide striplhas been secured in its adjustedposition, the baseplate 61 is applied and tightenedby means of the screw 68 againstthe fl ng s-5 In Figures 12, 13 and 14'; 70designatesa wood "post structure {'71 a sash guide member adjustable edgewiserelatively to the 'sash '72, the guide {member 71 being shown as including a base plate havinga rib '73 extending into thechannel or g'roov'ein the edge of; the-sashfi The base plate alsoyhasfan angular flange 74 overlappingfthe inner face of the post 70. The means for adjusting the guide member 7ledgewise relatively to sash, as here showng includes a screw 75 threading into the, post and having its head underlying the base flange of the guidemember 7i, the screw being accessible through-a work hole 76 in the baseplata'which work-hole is of less diameter thanlthe head of the screw so that by backingout the screwby means of a screw driver "extending through the work hole, the sash guide j'membe'r 71; thel head of the screwthrust outward against the guide member and adjustsor shifts or locates ita ipredeterrnined" distance edgewise away from the 'po st and byscrewing the screw inward through the work hole,"- the sash guide me n iber can be shifted. edgewise toward the post a ainst the, head of the screw. -"The screw illustrated atthe right hand side of Figure 12 threads into a metal bushing or insert in' the post '70. The screw illustrated at theleft'handside of the post of Figure "12 a wood -screw and threads "directly into'thepost; There are a plurality of I adjusting screws; two being usually-sufficient, lofcated near the lower and upper ends of the guide 1170" 1 After being adjusted by means ofthe screws '75, the' sash guide memberis tightened by means of screws 79extending through the base plate and F threading "intothe post and tending to tighten the base plate against the headofthe screw and member;

i In Figure 15, 81 designates a posh-t2 the guide s,

member on each side of the post, this includinga base plate having an angular flange 83- 1apping the inner side of the post. The guide member is adjustable edgewise relatively to the sash and held in its adjusted position by one. or more screws 1 84 extending through a slot 85' in the flange 83 andthreading into the post and having its head large enough to cover the slot in all *widthwise adjustments of the guide member 81; i To adjust the'guide memben the screws are loosened and the guide member is shifted inwardly or outward.- ly the desired distance, the-slots permitting such sliding and then the screw tightenedv firmly clamping the guide member in itsadjusted position. In both Figures 12 and 15, the guide member on the right hand side of said figureslare shown as differently adjusted from those. on-the left hand side. In any of the constructions, the screws 15 (Figure 3), cams 35 (Figure 8). and screws 75 (Figure 12) are rotary members operating on the inclined plane principle and ,coacting with the post structure and operable in a direction edgewise of the sash to adjust the sashguide widthwise. 1 z

In Figure 17, a widthwise adjustablesash guide is shown in whichthe sash slides in asash guide groove formed in the widthwis'e adjustable guide member and the guide member. is adjustedby means quite similar to thatshown in Figure'3.

In Figure 17, 86 designates a sheet metal window'frame member secured to the post 87 and 88 a face plate removably secured to the window frame member 86, as by screws 88 extending through slots in an angular base flange of the plate'88 and threading in the base ofuthe post member 86. The slots permit the faceplate to be snugly placed against theadjustable member 89 to be now described; Thewindow frame member 86'and the faceplate forms a channel of which the face plate 88 constitutes a removable side. 89 designates a widthwise adjustable guide -member located in the channel formed-by the" frame member 86 and the face plate 88,;this errclosing or housing a filler or strip90 .of nonmetallic or fibrous material, as felt, formed with a groove 91 in which the stile 92of the window -sash93 SlldES.' The member 89 is adjustable slot 96.- By manipulating the sash, that is,,raising or lowering it, so as to expose the screws,;th e screws can be turned to adjust ;the guide channel widthwise of the sash. There are usually two adjusting screws located respectively near the upper and lower ends of the guide and so located that by raising the sash; the lower screw is lexposed; andawhenthe sash is closed, the: upper screw: is. exposed. Obviously, by turning the sorewsin one direction or the other, by. means of: a screwdriver, the guide member. 89 and parts carried-:thereby, canbe adjusted toward or from the post and different ends of the guide member'89 can be adjusted differently to conform to inaccuracies and .misalinements.

In operation, the manufacturer suppliesthe sash and'the sash guide and also may supply the sheetmetal parts 4 and? which are, applied to the post body. The car manufacturer secures the parts 4 tothe post body 2 and inserts the guide members Spadjusting them by means of thescrews lei-to the proper position in the channel 5.. The facing strip 7 is then appliedand tightened bymeans of the screws, 18 which clamp the facing. strip against the guide memberwith enough pressure to hold the guide member from sliding with the sashwhen the sashis, being raisedand lowered.

This construction is particularly economical in manufacture, readily applied to the post body, and by this construction the window frame, is readily: adjustable to variations that may exist in the widths of the sashes, or inthe spacing of the posts,..andto slight misalinements out of the vertical.

What'I'claim is:

1. In a window and sash construction, aframe including apoststructure, a sash guide member carried by the post structure, a sash movable along. the guide member, the guide member being adjustable relatively to the post structure and the sash in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means self+contained with the guide member for adjusting theguide member to conform to variations inthe widths of sashes andvertical misalinements of the post structure, said means including screws threading in the guide and, thrusting against the post structure and extending in a direction edgewise of the sash.

2. In a window and sash construction, a frame including apost structure formed with a lengthwisechannel, the post structure includinga body: and a-facing strip forming one side of the channel, asash guide member mounted in the channel, a sash movable along the guidemember and slidably interlocked therewith, the guide member being adjustable toward and from the bottomof the channel, means .for adjusting the guide member in the channel edgewise relatively tothe sash, and means securing the facing strip to the body and clamping the facing strip against-the guide.

3. In a window and sash construction, a frame including a post structure formed with a length-,- wise channel, a guide member having av base portion in thechannel and a flange extending outside of the channel, a sash coasting with the guide member, the flange extending edgewise-of the-sash, and the sash having a groove in its edge for receiving the flange, the guide member being adjustable-in the channel edgewise relatively to the sash, and means for adjusting the guide member edgewise relatively to the sash and holding it in its adjusted position, said means including screws carried by the guide member and thrusting against the bottom of the channel and threading into the guide member, the screws extending in a direction edgewise of the sash and having their heads accessible on the side of the guide member toward the edge of the sash and on one side of said flange.

4; In -a-window construction a frameincluding aqpost formed-with a lengthwise'channel, a guide member mounted in the channel, a sash movable along the guide member, the guide member includinga base; U shapedin general form with, the branches of the U. engagingopposite sides of the channel, reinforcingblocks in the U shaped base, screwsthreading; in theblocks and thrusting against-the bottom of the channel, the screws having headsaccessible from the side ofthe base toward the edge of the sash.

5.. In a window and sash construction, a frame including a post structure, ,a sash guide member carried by the post structure, asash movable along the guide member, the guide member beingadjustable relativelyto the post structure and the sash in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means for adjusting theguide member to conform to Variations in the widths of sashes and vertical misalinements of thepost structure, said means including screws threading through the guide member and thrusting against the post structure and extending in a direction edgewise of the sash, and having heads accessible from the side of the guidetowardv theedge of the sash, whereby the adjusting screws are self-containedv with the guidemember andthrust only against the post structure. v

6-. In a window sash and guide construction, a frame, a post member, a guide member carried by the-post member, a sash movable along the guideI member, the guide. member being adjustablerelative to the post member and the sash in a directionedgewise of the sash, and means carried by and self contained with one of said members and vcoacting with the other of said members, and operable to adjust the guide member relative to the post member to conform to variations in the widths of sashes and vertical misalinements in the post member, said-means including screws threading, in one member and coacting with the other, whereby upon turning of. the screws, the

guide member is shifted edgewise relative to the post member, said screwsextending in adirection edgewise of the sash-and locking means operable to holdthe'guide member in its adjusted position.

7. In a window and sash construction, aframe. a post: member, a-guide member carried by the post member, asash movable along the guide member, the guide member being adjustablerelativeto the post memberand thesash in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means carried by and self contained withtheguide member and coacting'with the post member, and operable. to adjust the guidemember relative to..the post memberto. conform to variations in thewidths of sashes and, vertical misalinements, in the post member, said. means including screws. threading inone of said members and coacting with. the other, whereby. upon-turning, of the screws, the

guide member is shiftededgewise relative tov the post member, saidscrews extending in. a direction edgewise of thesash, and lockingmeansfor holding the guide member-in its adjusted position.

8'. In a window-sashand guide construction, a frame; a post member, a guide member carried by thexpost member, asash movable along-the guide member, theguide member-being adjustable rela- 131376;,601th891308t memberand thev sash in a direction-edgewise of the sash, and means carried .by and self contained with one of said members and coactinggwiththe v-;otherofsaid members, and operable to adjust the; guide member relative tov the post: member to 7 conformto variations in the widths of sashes and.- vertical misal-inements in the post member, said-.means including screws threading in one member and coacting with the other, whereby upon turning of the screws, the guide member is shifted. edgewise relative to the post member, said screws extending in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means acting on the guide member to create a binding action on the adjusting screws and hold the guide member and the screws in their adjusted position.

9. In a window and sash construction, a frame, a post member, a guide member carried by the post member, a sash movable along the guide member, the guide member being adjustable relative to the post member and the sash in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means carried by and self contained with one of said members and coacting with the other of said members, and operable to adjust the guide member relative to the post member to conform to variations in the widths of sashes and vertical misalinements in the post member, said means including screws threading in one of said members and coacting with the other, whereby upon turning of the screws, the guide member is shifted edgewise relative to the post member, said screws extending in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means acting on the guide member to create a binding action on the adjusting screws, and hold the guide member and the screws in their adjusted position, said locking means including screws extending through the guide member in a direction edgewise of the sash, and when tightened acting to create a binding action on the adjusting screws, and thereby holding the guide member and the adjusting screws in their adjusted position.

10. In a window and sash construction, a frame including a post member, a guide member carried by the post member, a sash movable along the guide member, the sash and the guide member having coacting means for holding the sash and guide member out of sliding metal to metal contact, the guide member being adjustable relative to the post member and the sash in a direction'edgewise of the sash, and means self contained with and carried as a unit with one of said members, and operable to adjust the guide member to conform to variations in widths of the sashes and vertical misalinements of the post structure, said means including screws threading in one of said members and coacting with the other, whereby upon turning of the screws the guide member is adjusted edgewise relative to the post member, said screws extending in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means for locking the guide member and the adjusting screws in their adjusted position.

11. In a window and sash construction, a frame including a post member, a guide member carried by the post member, a sash movable along the guide member, the sash and the guide member having coacting means for holding the sash and guide member out of sliding metal to metal contact, the guide member being adjustable relative to the post member and the sash in a direction edgewise of the sash, and means self contained with and carried as a unit with said guide member, and operable to adjust the guide member to conform to variations in width of the sashes and vertical misalinements of the post structure, said means including screws threading in one of said members and coacting with the other, whereby upon turning of the screws the guide member is adjusted edgewise relative to the post member, said screws extending in a direction edgewise of the sash, and locking screws extending in a direction edgewise of the sash, said screws extending into the guide member and creating, when'tightened, a binding action on the adjusting screws, and lock the guide member and the adjusting screws in their adjusted position.

12. In a window and sash construction, a frame including a post structure, the post structure including a body and a strip separable from the body, a guide member carried by the post member, the guide member being adjustable in a direction edgewise of the sash relative to the post structure, means for adjusting the guide member, said strip coacting with the guide member to hold it in its adjusted position, said strip, and the means for securing it to the body of the post structure, constituting means coacting with the guide member for holding it in its adjusted position.

13. In a window and sash construction, a frame including a post structure including a body, a demountable facing strip, and means for securing the facing strip to the body, a guide member coacting with the post structure, a sash movable along the guide member and slidably interlocked therewith, the guide member being adjustable in a direction edgewise of the sash relative to thepost structure, means for adjusting the guide member including screws threading in the guide member in a direction edgewise of the sash, and having heads accessible when said strip is removed, said strip coacting with the guide member, and the strip, and the means for securing it to the post structure, constituting means for holding the guide member in the position to which it has been adjusted by the screws.

ROY T. AXE. 

